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Agreed. I'm not sure how 'Source Code Version Control' and 'Build Automation' is anywhere near the words 'Software Engineering'. And 'Automated Testing' isn't a given at a lot of shops.

Professionally, I've never set up version control. It's there when I start the job, it'll be there when I leave. I've branched and merged but a lot of times this is handled by a build manager. Build automation I have never expressly done - a shop that needs continuous integration is typically one where it is already set up.

Seriously, unless the job is 'Build Manager' then the question should be just used to gauge what you might have to teach them. 'Have you used source/version control software? Which ones?' 'Do you have experience with build automation tools?'.
Considering the numerous exemptions including the one for "national security," I wonder how long it extends the time limit on actual government evidence of extraterrestrial UFO's.

/removes tinfoil hat
Posterous blogs using custom domains have been down for 3+ days
Sorry, your last line, I see that now.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who was completely confused by what this service actually does...

I tried clicking around to a few random pages and still couldn't gather exactly what it was trying to offer, although I kept clicking because I felt like "something" cool was hidden behind the jargon and poor UI.
Generally in my life I've shared the same opinion... but are you sure that if A/B-tested, 'please' would outperform 'pls' in the context of Work.IO's goals?

For example: when soliciting user participation, it often helps to lower user anxiety that what is written needs to be perfectly crafted/grammatical. 'Txtspeek' can send a signal: it's OK whatever 'u' want to type here.
Finally. OpenKinect has had these features for quite a long time. =)

I'm happy that Microsoft is officially supporting these features - and I'm looking forward to seeing what gets built.
Yes, but that problem also exists without quantum computers (qc). Advances may break existing crypto, even if proven secure under certain assumptions. This is because the advance may introduce a shortcut that proves the assumptions are unsufficient.

NTRU has been proven safe from known quantum attacks and has been around for some time. There certainly were efforts to attack NTRU using qc.

If it would be included in OpenSSL and NSS, it is likely those efforts would be intensified. I therefore suggest that getting it into those libraries may be the best we can do right now.
You learn apostrophes in elementary school. It's not asking that much, really. But thanks for the downvote.
> industrial-scale

Define that in a way that makes it intrinsically desirable. Otherwise, it's a red herring.
A lot of these questions look great if you just finished school, but not so great 10 years later. There are an almost unlimited number of things I can focus on that will actually improve my performance on the job, and none of them are memorizing the workings of B-trees just in case I need to use one someday and the internet is down.

Computer Science degrees are about laying the foundations so that you can understand things like B-trees when you need them.
User submitted links are rel="nofollow"'d, so no, HN comments and submissions don't help.
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Don't yc companies have only a few team members, say three. That $333,333 per team member. Seems like more money than sense. a good argument not to give startups much money until they have a profitable business model and just need money to scale.
Rocketships are insane, there has to be many many fail safes because failures happen all the time. I remember a NASA engineer giving a talk on engineering safety when I was going to school where he said that the probability of catastrophic failure in NASA's launches is 1 in 100 and that is as low as they are able to make it at this point in time.
That seems to be a ebay like thing for South America. I dont know if I can use the payment system only to accept credit cards in Ecuador. Imma take a look at it.
Not-entirely-related, but, RetroThing is a great site for all of you retro enthusiasts. They have a lot of actual original content, versus all the regurgitated stuff on all the other sites. (Not HN news though, this is all good regurgitated stuff!) ;D

Disclaimer: I'm friends with one of the writers/editors/major contributors(?) of RetroThing.
Microsoft and WebGL - Never in IE

http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-security-and-microsoft-...
Why have I seen "Paypal froze my account" dozens of times, but never the same about a bank?
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Would be really great if this could be used to test arbitrary REST APIs, not just Django... Would love to use this to test my Node.js API :(
They'd also have to stop changing the driver APIs. For example my G2 used to only have drivers for Linux 2.6 but ICS uses Linux 3.0 which made life difficult for custom ROM hackers.
I suppose they saw changes in the numbers, but they were still hitting their marks, so they didn't worry too much. I watched the livestream, and honestly, I didn't even know something bad had happened. Maybe they weren't glued to the video but rather the numbers on their screens?

Although, historically it seems that NASA control teams pride themselves on their ability to stay levelheaded during bad situations. Are there a lot of ex-NASA employees at SpaceX?
Nobel Prize in Medicine for Stem Cells - 6 years from paper (breakthrough time?)
There are many grammar errors throughout the site. Pay someone to copy edit it.
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Related: Go to http://www.google.com/reviews/t and enter w3schools.com

"Google may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall."
I didn't know this before, but SpaceX has only done eight launches so far--half of them test flights. Perhaps this explains the anomaly.
Mike,

Thanks for your response. These make sense and I will be applying this time.

Cheers!
Abhinav
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Hans took on the 555 timer project after he had already started his own business and did it on contract. The contract helped him survive (with a wife and 4 young kids) while he built his business.

I never once heard him comment on disappointment about not getting royalties on the 555 timer, in fact, I never once heard him mention anything about royalties on any of the work he did for other companies during the 60's and early 70's. I don't think it was in the mentality of era. In the time since then, the success and popularity of the 555 timer was enough of a reward for him.
What OS/DE does not have a toolkit just for creating File Open dialogs?
This is incorrect. In avionics software, you want software that self-detects its own failure to quit immediately, and engage the backup system.

You do NOT want it to "soldier on" once it has entered an unknown state.

The general problem with error codes is they can be so easily ignored, and then the software is operating in an unknown and untested state.

I suspect the actual reason why they eschewed exceptions is because exceptions may not be able to guarantee hard realtime latency.
I don't know these answers off the top of my head, but if I needed to know them in the real world, I could easily find them out in a couple of seconds or minutes with Google and Wikipedia.

The difference between me and someone who is unfamiliar with computer science (but is still good with Google) is that I can read the answers and their corresponding articles and understand what they mean, as opposed to the other person, who would just be able to recite the answers as trivia.
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I don't understand where the Coanda effect is coming into play here. From the first cutaway drawing (http://goo.gl/QKOJy), it appears that the outer disk rotates independently of the main hub--possibly powered by the central turbines forcing air outward to the wing? It also shows the air in-take port(s) where you would expect outward thrusting air. And, it seems, like the Coanda effect relies on a more spherical shape, as opposed to the very flat sketch shown. How would that design produce the Coanda effect?

I am basing my questions on what I could glean from Wikipedia and a couple Youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPUAq3QObp4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxJe-RMUsI
They dont say how much real money they put on the table. They say "$1MM in cash and equity". Its a marketing ploy. And it worked. They got a catchy TC headline for free.
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I believe it was in the article as an example of an engine using Direct Fuel Injection which the article examines as one possible way to improve fuel efficiency.
Another part of that item was confusing to me as well - "ORM tools". I'm assuming this isn't referring to an ORM library or framework, since this section seems to be about editors, IDEs, and other desktop software. What are "ORM tools"?
Ah yes, good stuff. I forgot about the aborted launch, and the initial Falcon 9 launch without Dragon. My 1/27 figure, in addition to being overly simplistic, is wrong.
Given that the rocket is specifically designed to operate normally with an anomaly such as this, I'd say they had faith in their rocket to perform as it did. I think the statement at the end of the update sums it up well:

>Falcon 9 did exactly what it was designed to do. Like the Saturn V, which experienced engine loss on two flights, Falcon 9 is designed to handle an engine out situation and still complete its mission.
Work on important problems.
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This is great for SpaceX. A more-or-less anticipated event that was handled perfectly by automatic systems is being reported as a potentially catastrophic failure. They get all the great press for proving the safety of their design without having to go through the stress of an actual potentially catastrophic failure.
I've been banned from Paypal, I assume because my account has been hacked twice (they never gave a concrete reason) among 100s of legitimate transactions over many years. What is frustrating is "this limitation cannot be appealed" - it seems to me that the true scammers wouldn't even try appealing, so I think they are firing me rather than accusing me of acting maliciously.

Fair enough - they are a business who wants to maximize profit, and I was being a 'bad' customer. But I think this is short-sighted; they are a social payment network and every lost customer is millions of potential payment links destroyed. I've already made a few people use competing services to send me money. Paypal has consistently thrown out the opportunity to be a de facto online payment standard in exchange for a higher margin.
Ask users to like facebook.com/CortopassiConsulting. What? You asked what I would do with it :p

Seriously though, that's a pretty big captive audience. Do you have any product to promote? Are they fairly engaged? I myself would love to know how you got to that number.
If I'm reading this correctly, it's $1m they're putting up to acquire "teams", not "a team". My guess is each team will get much less, which makes me question the usefulness.
they most certainly should, but I'd argue only "The worst possible _planned_ problem occurred" :)
Being that the $1M is a mixture of cash and stock, they're not likely to actually get that much cash per person. In fact, I'm betting it's much less. Also, who knows if what they intend on paying the founders/new employees after they start working. Perhaps they'll offer a minimal salary, meaning that it all balances out in the end. Despite this eye catching headline, there's still a lot of unknowns that could make it a not very sweet deal.
It's not necessarily $1 million each, but total for however many they find. If it's coming out of a $4 million investment, they can't recruit that many teams.
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But the phrase so muß auch sometimes is used in causal contexts; for example:

Sind zwei Zahlen gegen irgendeine Zahl prim, so muss auch ihr Produkt gegen dieselbe prim sein.[1]

Or if you're into Amtdeutsch:

Sind mindestens zehn Mitarbeiter mit der automatisierten Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten nicht nur gelegentlich beschäftigt, so muss auch ein bDSB bestellt werden.[2]

Still not quite like the way "so" is used in English, of course.

[1] http://did.mat.uni-bayreuth.de/studium/veranstaltungen/winte...

[2] https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/medizin/allgemein/apotbdsb...
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I can't remember who wrote this, but someone recently was blogging about YCombinator being the future of the educational and credentialing system. Stories like this make me believe the author's premise.
Ach so!
Increase Rate Queries on Google custom search API?
We've filled out the Google form to request an increased rate limit beyond the standard 10,000/day for Google Custom Search, but we havent heard back. Has anyone had success getting this done?
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Currently no, unfortunately. The current way is already easy. But still may be implemented later.
If I may digress a bit, I've always wondered why one is more inclined to say 'systems programmer' rather than 'systems developer'.
I think you're missing my point. It's not coding loosely, it's optimizing moving quickly. And by moving quickly you can actually have a safer and more secure site than by, say, only releasing code every 3 months or something.
Groklaw doesn't, in this post, mention the patents that the foreman had, nor how they affect his perception of the case.

Groklaw makes a lot of points about a previous bankruptcy, and makes a lot of insinuations about character. But there's no smoking gun there. There's nothing cut and dried. There's just a bunch of unpleasant sniping at the man's character.

I'm firmly on Samsung's side here; I always thought the result was ridiculous. Groklaw managing to alienate me is evidence that they're going to far.
Equity, baby! They offer equity, not cash. Only an unnamed amount of cash. So if they value their company at 100 trillion, they can recruit a lot of teams for 1 million each :)
That's a daft statement. It's definitely possible for juries to decide improperly -- whether Samsung succeeds on its appeals depends on stuff like that, so of course groklaw will focus on it.

They didn't discuss any personal affairs of the foreman until it was revealed out that Samsung was claiming those very affairs were grounds for an appeal.

Whether the specific details about the foreman in this article are relevant or not is another matter -- but that's not what you seem to be basing your opinion on.
I would say there's more than a bit of analysis. It's a long post.
But instead he created a company that pioneered the concept of semi-custom integrated circuits, and rolled in the dough. :) I think the mentality that he was somehow cheated out of something would have been seriously lost on him. He did what he did because he loved it and the money was secondary.
Stratolaunch (funded by Paul Allen & Burt Rutan) is partnering with SpaceX to build an air-launched Falcon 9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratolaunch_Systems

Why would a saucer or other shape make more sense than proven fixed-wing aircraft designs?
Oh hey another terrible article at the top of HN.
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Hell yes, w3schools can go weep in the corner!
Or, our government has witnessed said technology and tried to recreate/reverse-engineer it? Makes you wonder why they would build something like this just on a without a valid reason behind doing so.
While this is (technically) interesting, I don't see it being useful at all on a computer. Page curls are good on devices that can somewhat mimic a page but it really just feels awkward with a mouse or trackpad.
I'd imagine that if there were any UFOs and they were classified it would probably be similar to the "born secret" clause that nuclear weapons research gets. So if you discovered anything it would retroactively be classified even if you didn't know it at the time and you could be prosecuted (and worse) for sharing it.

/removes Faraday suit (Tinfoil hats aren't effective anymore)
The Django app is loosely coupled. Playground logic is behind the client-side. It's uses just jQuery. You can implement Node.JS version of this project.
You said

> Entrepreneurs are not interested in starting programs that will yield results only after 10-20 years, and VCs have an even shorter attention span

I was responding to that (especially the assumption that entrepreneurs imply VC), not purely speculative bullshit about Nobel prize winners. At least keep track of your own arguments.
Pretty design, and nice concept overall but there doesn't seem to be any way to add certain kinds of information other than connecting social networking sites. I don't want to do that.
Brilliant, brilliant PR that's knocking every corner of the internet.

But the pitch feels a bit dishonest given that the $1m will be "a mixture of cash and equity"

A mixture could mean a $10k signing bonus and $990k in stock. And then what type of stock. And then at what valuation. etc.

But still, got to respect the hustle in that pitch.
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Judging by the url you are running wordpress, so you'll most likely need caching and if you're running apache you might consider turning KeepAlive off while you are getting hammered.
Can you provide citations? I have read that paypal is regulated far less (in the USA), and I am fairly certain that paypal is not a bank in the USA.

One example I can think of: a bank's customers can be plaintiffs in a class suit against the bank, but as of next month paypal's customers won't be able to be in one against paypal.
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Yes, but the point is that the engine didn't explode. The fairing flew apart, not the engine. That's a big difference.
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Was the Samsung "Heaven or Hell" inspiration speech document translated from Korean, or was it delivered in English and written in English?

Because to me it doesn't seem to be saying "copy iPhone", unless "build the best phone you can and make the UI better; make it better than iPhone" is the same as "copy the iPhone".
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Which "mean" to use and when?
Like the others have said, the design is good but I just don't know what I am getting from the site on first approach. I also don't like how the home page main call to action is Sign In, what am I signing into and why should I?

I expect the homepage to tell me how you are going to help me, not for me to find out how you can help me?
OP here, just wanted to add a little bit about Freelance Factor.

It's a brand new community I'm trying to get off the ground. If it matters:

- it's completely free; no subscription fees or "premium" membership costs.

- Some of the starting content contains an article about one of my favorite ways to boost productivity, focus, and overall health: http://freelancefactor.net/index.php?/page/index.html/_/arti...

- while the immediate feature is a forum for freelancers and consultants, the site also has articles, which will be added weekly, if not more frequently.

With the community being brand new, I hope some of you feel compelled to join as early members. Just as good, any feedback anyone is willing to provide on how I can make things better will certainly contribute towards helping start and grow the community.

Thanks HN!
If you've been following the case, there were several times when Samsung was unable to file responses due to some sort of time restriction. I have no idea if that's because Samsung fucked up or not -- it was groklaw's interpretation that the judge was being much more strict than is the norm on these matters.
Thanks :-) Developer & customer feedback is a big deal for us and we've been working to add new capabilities that people want. Anything else you can think of that you'd like to see us do or enable in the SDK?
I've seen this done a couple of different times, and it still makes zero sense from a usability standpoint. What is wrong with vertical scrolling? The entire gesture of clicking and dragging is awkward and makes zero sense when using a computer to read content.
Why do I feel like "basic competency for someone with a few years experience" is the top end of this grid? Seems like some low bars.
Carl Sagan said "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

I'm a web developer. I use tools, languages, and frameworks built on many Computer Science concepts that I don't fully understand, but I would sorely hate to have to reinvent those wheels every time I need to create a new application, or to even need to understand their most intricate inner workings despite the fact that they have been abstracted away for my convenience.

Perhaps this makes me "mediocre" in the eyes of some, but I get my work done and have never had any of my managers or customers tell me that what I have delivered is "mediocre" in their eyes.

Several times I've come up against an issue that requires me to push the limits of my skills and knowledge, and I do not shy away from learning, but it would do me little good to learn many of the things that are taught in a typical CS course. I consider myself passionate about my work, and I strive to learn new things every day, but I don't consider myself to be at a disadvantage, nor do I find my lack of knowledge in those areas to be a deficiency.

I am proud of my accomplishments, and of the course I have taken in my career. Perhaps my skills would be of little use at Tarsnap, but I have no shortage of work at any number of other companies.
Thanks for the feedback. We wanted to make it harder for people to add topics and industries only to get certain jobs. We will look into ways for user who don't want to connect their profile to social networking sites.